"Our Pub"
Library and the academic blog "Our Pub". Jointly, they form
integrated sites providing a forum for questions belonging to the
intersection of philosophy with logic and compuer science, and the
intersection of computationally oriented philosophy with political and
economic issues, esp. those concerning Europe.

The call CALCULEMUS (let's compute) sums up Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz's (1646-1716) approach to arguments. It encourages those
engaged in a dispute to turn arguments into computing. In this enterprise,
they may enjoy assistance of a reasoning machine. Leibniz believed that such
a machine can be constructed on the basis of a calculating machine, because
- anticipating modern logic - he identified reasoning with computing.

The picture above presents
Leibniz's mechanical calculator which was capable (unlike the earlier
machines of Schickard and of Pascal) also of multiplying and dividing;
nowadays it is kept in Leibniz's House in Hannover. Leibniz was very proud
of his invention, and once he thought of commemorating it with a medal
bearing the motto Superior to Man. Though much exaggerated, such a
motto might have expressed the idea that, when starting from such a simple
prototype, one could gradually attain the level of most advanced reasonings
to be carried out by machines (as presently hoped by strong AI). It was also
Leibniz who invented binary arithmetic, and so much praised that achievement
that designed a medal with the following inscriptions: the model of
creation discovered by G.W.L, and one is enough for deriving
everything from nothing.

By choosing this picture as the logo and calculemus
as the motto of this domain, one endorses Leibniz's insight as to the power
of computing.

Within this domain there is also a store of documents (English, German, Polish) Aera Informatica concerning
information society. This section contains the journal (Polish) Kurier Polityczny which appeared in
1996-1997 to support the ideas of the party "Unia Wolnosci".